I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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